Egyptian+religion+and+beliefs

toc =Religion= God of ||~ **Name** ||~ **Appearance** || Ancient Egypt's' beliefs in many gods. Gods in Ancient Egypt was represented as peace and harmony. They say some of the gods were in the creation.T hey worship the gods so that their lives can continue smoothly. All gods in Egypt have a few common things: They all have parts that are related to animals and they are family members with counterparts which has the opposite gender.  The ancient Egyptian believed that the spirits in peoples body would go to the after life but only if it was preserved.The ancient Egyptian also believe that in the tombs they need to put food, clothing, furniture........................... Tombs of the pharaohs are the most valuable and the biggest, they normally have jewels, golden statues and other valuable.
 * ~ ==Gods==
 * Sun || [|Ra] || head of falcon and sun disk ||
 * Music || [|Hathor] || horns of cow and sun disk ||
 * Destruction || [|Sekhmet] || head of lion ||
 * Sky || [|Nut] || blue with golden stars ||
 * Earth || [|Geb] || colour of plants and Nile mud ||
 * Dead || [|Osiris] || dressed in white with crook and flail ||
 * Desert || [|Seth] || animal head with long curved snout ||
 * Pharoah || [|Horus] || head of hawk and crown of Egypt ||
 * Magic || [|Isis] || throne on head or holding baby ||
 * Wisdom || [|Thoth] || head of ibis ||
 * Embalming || [|Anubis] || head of jackal ||
 * Justice || [|Ma'at] || feather in her hair ||
 * Creation || [|Amun] || crowned with feathers ||
 * Cats || [|Bastet] || head of cat ||

 Religion Egypt is based on how they live their life. Egyptian religion has more than 2000 gods and goddesses. The gods and goddesses is usually part human part animal. Each god has a meaning. Like the god Ra, it means sun. You could call it the sun god. The Egyptians had many story's about how the world started. Like the the sun god Ra made light. That's probably why he's called the sun god. There were temples for the gods. Only for the gods to dwell. "The priests duty was to care for the gods and attend to their needs. The priests had many duties such as funeral rites, teaching school, supervising the artists and works, and advising people on problem s".

They chose animals to represent the gods because of the animals power. Ancient Egyptians think that worshiping the gods and goodness's were very important. So, praying is a big part of there life. The official gods and goodness's were Amun,Horus and Bastet, these were the gods and goddesses that were put in the important temples for the pharaohs to pray. Other gods were put in the normal temples for the normal people to pray.

Horus is the god that Pharaohs pray because he is the god of the sky and so the Ancient Egyptian say that the pharaohs are the living Horus. Normally, each city in Egypt has it's own god in it's city's main temple: Naqada, god Seth.Nekhen,God Horus. They do not need the gods at any time. They only need the gods at celebrations and other small things. Like to give thanks that they won a war. Not to win a war, but to thank them. So they don't need the gods during dagerous times.

Egyptians worship the gods in different ways than in the world. There were no things that the worship was based on. They do not preach or care for the congregation. 

=Annotated Bibliography = Egyptian Gods." __Egyptian Gods__. Mar. 1999. 25 Nov. 2008 . This site has a chart that talks about the few most important Egyptian gods, with their name and what they are use for and their appearance. This is a very useful site. It still gave a little information.

"The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt." __The gods and goddesses of ancient E__"__gypt__. 25 Nov. 2008 . I think this is a good website becuase it tells specifically about ancient Egypt gods and goddesses. It had little information but it still gave some information.

Vendel, Otter. "115 Egyptian Gods." __115 Egyptian Gods__. 25 Nov. 2008 .

Burgan, Michael. __The Valley of the Kings__. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone P, 2005. 3-31. This book has information about the tombs and the religion.

"Ancient Egyptian Religion." __Ancient Egyptian Religion__. 26 Nov. 2008. 26 Nov. 2008 http://www2.sptimes.com/egypt/egyptcredit.4.3.html. I thout this website was a really good source. It really told me a lot. The thing sthat they told me was connected in my research. It didn't just tell about the realigion but the funeral and other good source.

"How did people worship the gods and goddesses?" __How did people worship the gods and goddesses?__ 26 Nov. 2008 . This web told me alot about how the people worshiped.

"The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt." __The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt__. 30 Nov. 2008. 30 Nov. 2008 http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/home.html. This website told me about Egypts gods that there only some groups they have for the gods. It also told me my answer to my question. This book tells me some information and stories.

Shaw, Joseph. "The Age of God-kings." __The Age of God-kings__. History of the world ed. Vol. 2. Time-life Books Inc, 1987. 9-176.

Parsons, Marie. "Preists in Ancient Egypt." __Preists in Ancient Egypt__. 1 Dec. 2008. InterCity Oz, Inc. 1 Dec. 2008 http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/priests.htm. They had good information. They told me what I needed to know. They said all about the priests and how they worship the gods. The rest of the information is useless for my question at least.